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Old 23-12-11, 12:53 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Hi,

A long shot this but tried my luck.

I had V+ HD Scientific Atlanta 8300 box, had recordings on there of our daughter when she was on TV, but couldn't get the recording off via scart to archive it, thought in time I could solve it, but...

The box got bricked with a power cut/surge, it displayed 8888 and nothing would work. Called Virgin to swap out the box.

In the meantime I cloned the hard disk, through the PC, by extending a power cable and IDE cable into the V+ box and using a RAW copy programme. I now have a second hard drive which is hopefully a copy of the original drive.

I maybe rashly purchased a used SA8300 HD box on the Ebay, they all go for around £10-15 which said it had a paired card.

Virgin came and swapped the duff box, I now have the newer Samsung box and all is working fine.

So, my question is where can I go from here, can I connect the SA box to Virgin Cable to get it connected, even briefly, just so I can see if I can retrieve the recordings from the cloned HDD, or will Virgin immediately see it is an unauthorised box and blacklist it or something worse?

Can I mod the box, I read about talkback being disabled? I don't want to use the box after this, simply to get those precious recordings back and onto another medium.

Thank you for any help you can give.

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Steve
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I believe the encrypted recording can only be played out of the machine it was recorded on.

It might be easier to see if you can find a download for the TV program she was on, like from a torrent site maybe..
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